North By Northwest (DVD)

A masterful mix of comedy and suspense from Alfred Hitchcock. Advertising executive Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) is lunching in a restaurant with his mother when he mistakenly answers a page for one George Kaplan. He soon finds himself on the run across the country, being pursued by enemies of the government who are convinced that he is a secret agent. He finds a friend in Eve Kendall (Eve Marie Saint), who helps conceal him during a perilous train journey, but soon discovers that she is not all she seems.

General

Studio:	Warner Brothers Pictures
Release date:	April 2001
Movie released:	1959
Directors:	Alfred Hitchcock
Actors:	Cary Grant • Eva Marie Saint • Perry Mason
Dimensions:	192 x 137 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:
Running time:	2 hours, 11 minutes
Region encoding:	Region 2. This DVD will play in all South African DVD players.
Audio format:	Dolby Digital 5.1
Video format:	Widescreen 1.85:1
Languages:	English
Subtitles:	English • French • Italian • Dutch • Arabic • Spanish • German
Age restriction:	PG
Categories:	DVD > Adventure DVD > Classics DVD > Mystery DVD > Feature Film
LSN:	XQB-GTW-U9M-2
Barcode:	7321900650168

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North by Northwest

Fri, 17 May 2013 | Review by: Micky B

By far Hitchcock's “most fun” film ever, this family-orientated thriller has many less-than-subtle funny moments. In fact, it goes out of its way to b taken with<i> several</i> pinches of salt! The movie begins with a case of mistaken identity. Advertising executive Roger O. Thornhill (Cary Grant) is mistaken for a man named"George Kaplan" and kidnapped by Valerian (Adam Williams) and Licht (Robert Ellenstein). The two take him to the Long Island estate of Lester Townsend. There he is interrogated by a man he assumes to be Townsend, but who is actually spy Phillip Vandamm (James Mason). Vandamm orders his right-hand man Leonard (sinister Martin Landau) to get rid of Thornhill. Unable to kill him by tampering with hos car, they follow him to the United Nations building in New York, where a newly-stabbed body quite literally falls into his arms! As Thornhill is discovered with the murder weapon of a knife in his hand, he is now on the run from both the police as well as Vandam and his gang! On a train, Thornhill encounters the beautiful Eve Kendall (Eva Marie Saint – yet another of Hitchcock's several “ice-blonde” heroines...but who is she, and can Thornhill trust her? The only person who seems to know what is going on is a mysterious old man known only as “The Proofessor” (Leo G Carroll) who sems to crop up in the strangest of places at the most unexpected times. The thrilling climax takes place atop the well-known sculptured rock-face of Mt. Rushmore, in South Carolina, USA. (As an aside: critics had taunted Hitchcock that while much of his suspense sequences in his previous movies, had occurred in the confined space of a room or even a deserted street – and that he couldn't do it in a wide-open space. Well, what could be a wider and more open space than being alone in the middle of a flat newly-mowed wheat-field in Idaho?) In short: this is 135 minutes of insurpassable entertainment of the first order!

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